It's still as fresh as when I first read it in a tent in the Orkney Islands 30 years ago, waiting for the rain to stop for just a moment, for the clouds to raise their petticoats before the hint of a horizon. Moreover, this also means the reader gets a take on survivor's guilt and a number of other mental health issues. Aside from the fact that I just didn't particularly like the structure (too much ominous foreshadowing!

The hero has pushed the love of his life into a black hole, but the memory is so traumatic that he's blocked it. Gracias a ellos conoceremos Pórtico, un asteroide reconvertido en un puerto interestelar explotado por una Corporación multimillonaria.

The element of high risk, all or nothing stakes while being charged extravagant daily fees ramped up the urgency to start the dangerous prospecting. So while this book deals with some larger themes and issues it also comes off as a bit of hippy dippy psychology and I'm not really sure I got the message it was trying to send. I'd also recently finished his enjoyable capitalist-dystopian novels The Space Merchants and sequel The Merchants' War. They abandoned it long before mankind stopped throwing their feces at each other and invented the wheel.

Die Grundidee des Romans, mittels aufgefundenen Artefakten und lustigen Raumschifflein einer fremden Spezies namens Hitschi zu unbekannten Ufern aufzubrechen, wirkt seltsam unwirklich und ist teilweise physikalisch ungenau (Zeitdillatation/Relativitätstheorie) aber dennoch schillernd-spannend und phantasievoll beschrieben; eine Art "Russisch Roulette", ein Lotteriespiel unter Einsatz des eigenen Lebens.Esta es sencilla, coherente y explicada, pero sin profundizar en jerga científica ni nada por el estilo. Instead when we are on Gateway, Rob just mills around being a self centered arsehole and worrying that he will soon run out of money. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first forty years. It was not just a jumble of stuff taken out of the internet and mixed together in a horrifying amalgamation of logic and patterns, like ours. The narration is also aided by little advertisements, letters and other types of notices interspersed through out the book.

Pórtico es todo un estudio sobre la psicología humana ante situaciones extremas, y sus consecuencias. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers. Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere.

All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.